St. Baldrick’s returns to New Hope

Claudia Kolinchak
Editor

For the past 3 years, the New Hope community has played a part in conquering childhood cancer through the organization St. Baldrick's. This year will be the town’s fourth annual event, with the highest fundraising goal yet, and the community is excited to participate yet again.
  St. Baldrick's is a non-profit organization that raises money to fund research for childhood cancer; the disease that kills the most children each year. The organization has been making a difference in thousands of lives since 1999 and has grown from raising $100,000 in its first year to $39,000,000 in 2017.
Many community organizations get involved, whether they donate raffle items, have their own booth, or have representatives volunteer alongside fellow community members. National Honors’ Society provides a large amount of volunteers to help with running games, face-painting, crafts, and many other activities.
  A large part of this event is people raising money and awareness by shaving their heads for the cause, or “braving the shave”. These “shavees” may be individual or they may form a team of other shavees for fundraising purposes. This year, however, “shavees” do not have to go bald to participate. Anyone can donate more than 8 inches of their hair to be a participant.
  Last year, the fundraising goal was $100,000 and New Hope knocked the ball out of the park by reaching higher than 150% of that goal. This event was able to donate $157,000 to cancer research.
  This year, the goal was raised to $125,000 and there are high expectations for this event to exceed the amount raised in prior years.

Super Wawa in New Hope proves to be controversial

Zach Meixler
Staff Writer

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of establishing a local Super Wawa. The controversy is demonstrated through the signs posted throughout New Hope petitioning this new change being enforced.

 While signs may indicate that there are a large number of people who are working to enforce this change, this change has not yet been discussed by and local officials as the topic is intensely controversial. Additionally, many who are in favor of the Super Wawa and see it as an opportunity to have a convenient place to purchase gas, and also to have a greater food variety, being that it is a larger convenience store than the local Wawa that is currently in New Hope.

 “I don’t really see the issue with it, I think that it’s fine; however, I will miss the old location because I’ve grown up with it, but I think it will be better for the town,” said Kayla Paul-Koch.

 However, many other citizens who are opposed to the move and feel that a Super Wawa would cause more damage to the community as it might weaken local economy. Furthermore, many locals might also want to preserve the historical feel that New Hope has to offer.

 While both sides have not come to a consensus, it’s safe to say that the inhabitants of New Hope only want what's best for the town.